Polistes is a cosmopolitan genus of about 200 known species of medium-sized to large social
wasps. As their common name (paper wasp) suggests, they build a light but strong paper …

… part the poneroid lineages retained their predatory ways. So the success of ants rests largely
on the shoulders of the formicoids. One can imagine that if formicoids had not evolved, ants …

… Because ants use venoms for defense and predation, venomous ants … poneroid ants
Neoponera commutata, Neoponera apicalis, and Odontomachus hastatus and the formicoid ants …

… ants have been well studied, there is a lack of published data on the mitogenomes of
Poneroid ants… In this study, we first present three complete mitogenomes of Poneroid ants: …

… most major ant subfamilies. I report the results of the first detailed phylogenetic study of the
ant … for investigating social and ecological evolution in ants. Molecular sequence data were …

I report the results of the first detailed phylogenetic study of the ant subfamily Ponerinae, a
diverse lineage whose properties make it an attractive model system for investigating social …

… that we called Subclade Poneroid 2; the third group includes the genera of the Subfamily
Proceratiinae that we called Subclade Poneroid 3. Thus, in this analysis the Poneroid Clade is …

… poneroids) from the remaining formicoids. This arrangement tests the notion that dorylomorphs
are closely related to poneroid ants… 6, anchoring the ant tree on adjacent branches within …

… the taxonomy of Japanese ants is inadequate. There are few … to 39 genera of the poneroid
complex subfamilies. Practically… to revise the Japanese ants of the poneroid complex at genus…

… On the other hand, the reproductive system of poneroid ants is markedly diverse: reproduction
is undertaken by alate queens that shed their wings, permanently wingless ergatoid …